Latest Stories
Bad Lawyering Began and Ended N.J. Case
Tim O'[email protected], N.J.-For 18 days, former gubernatorial aide Golan Cipel and his lawyers threatened to sue New Jersey Gov. James E. McGreevey for sexual harassment. Throughout the standoff, the governor's lawyers practically dared Cipel to file, accusing him and his legal team of being shakedown artists without a case.Cox Deal Nets $1.25M for Lawyers
Steven H. [email protected] action lawyers fighting Cox Enterprises in Fulton County have avoided the fate of their counterparts in Delaware, where a judge ridiculed and cut a $4.95 million fee request by about 75 percent.Late last month, Fulton Superior Court Judge Constance C. Russell awarded all of the requested $1.Lax Texas laws allow cozy lobbyist-lawmaker ties
AUSTIN, Texas AP - Texas House Speaker Tom Craddick does business with a lobbyist, but can't say whom. Fellow Rep. Sid Miller finally disclosed his lobbyist dealings, but only after someone complained.And then there are Reps. Kino Flores and Jim Murphy: Their day jobs intersect with state government interests, but their state disclosure forms don't say that.Alston set to vote on adding two Calif. offices
Alston Bird will add 90 lawyers in California, pending a partnership vote this morning.At 8 a.m. today, the firm's partners are to vote on adding a Los Angeles office through a merger with 80-lawyer Los Angeles firm Weston Benshoof Rochefort Rubalcava MacCuish, plus a Silicon Valley office by acquiring Akin Gump Strauss Hauer Feld's 10-lawyer IP group in Palo Alto, according to a source close to Alston.Fielding to serve a president-again
THERE ARE FIXERS in Washington, and there are fixtures. Fred Fielding is both. The man who, on Feb. 1, will replace Harriet Miers as White House counsel epitomizes the changes that have enveloped the Bush administration since the November elections. During his first six years in the White House, with a Republican Congress in control, President George W.Reports fault Atlanta Fed for bank failures
Federal Reserve examiners failed to rein in practices that led to losses from excessive real estate lending at two banks in California and Florida that later closed, the central bank's inspector general said. Riverside Bank of the Gulf Coast in Cape Coral, Fla., "warranted more immediate supervisory attention" by the Atlanta district bank, Fed Inspector General Elizabeth Coleman said in a report to the central bank's board.Google reaches deal on Belgian newspaper links
Google Inc. reached a deal with Belgian newspaper publishers, resolving a six-year copyright battle that had blocked the owner of the world's most-used search engine from publishing links to local newspapers.Many midsize, small firms begin new year with mergers
Merger and practice group acquisition announcements have been coming fast and furious from small and midsize law firms during the past week. That's not unusual at the end of a calendar year, as many firms wait until a new year to merge operations because it makes bookkeeping easier. But the recent tumble of the economy and the legal industry is adding a new dynamic to law firm mergers and practice group acquisitions, legal experts say.Attorney general promises a new day at Justice
In his first confab with the nation's chief federal district judges, Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. pledged to raise the bar of professionalism in the Department of Justice and acknowledged that the current procedure for reviewing complaints against attorneys was too slow and opaque. Nine chief judges described the April 21 meeting on the condition of anonymity because it was closed to the public.Trending Stories
- 1Trump's DOJ Files Lawsuit Seeking to Block $14B Tech Merger
- 2'No Retributive Actions,' Kash Patel Pledges if Confirmed to FBI
- 3Justice Department Sues to Block $14 Billion Juniper Buyout by Hewlett Packard Enterprise
- 4A Texas Lawyer Just Rose to the Trump Administration
- 5Hogan Lovells Hires White & Case Corporate and Finance Team in Italy
Featured Firms
Law Offices of Gary Martin Hays & Associates, P.C.
(470) 294-1674
Law Offices of Mark E. Salomone
(857) 444-6468
Smith & Hassler
(713) 739-1250
